Tag: 002

If you are reading this, you may know quite a fair bit about your cats. Please enjoy this selection from A Brief History of Space Cats, and the Care and Feeding Thereof by Sarah Ever. Written by the main character from Space Cats from Space, these entries form a resource for feline companions to help them ease the transition from cat “owner” to their true role as caretaker and, possibly, human slave. Please enjoy!Continue reading “D is for Dogs – #AtoZChallenge”

Junior youth named today’s post. Sometimes it’s more trouble to think of something good than to just pull something out of someone else’s head. So I have done so. 🙂

Yesterday was a fabulous day at the office! As fabulous as those things can get, anyway. I managed to get a few errands in, did some reading in the car, found some really interesting things in the book I was ready to set aside as finished even though there’s some stuff yet to read and decided to keep going, etc. My writing all happened at the end of the day, but that’s all right. that will probably happen tonight, too, because I really need the quiet to get it done.

Speaking of words, I wrote 1,365 fiction words yesterday, and 1,776 words total. Very nice! It’s down a bit from yesterday and the day before, but those were weekend days with lots of quiet time. I still broke 1K so there’s nothing to be sad about there. And my daily average is climbing nicely, once more within 5 words of 500. I’m going to get that sucker up there in no time!

Today (as you may have noticed) is Tuesday, and that’s my writing group day. I’m looking forward to hanging out with awesome people who write and not getting any writing done until I get home. Because that’s how we roll. And I love it.

If you are reading this, you may know quite a fair bit about your cats. Please enjoy this selection from A Brief History of Space Cats, and the Care and Feeding Thereof by Sarah Ever. Written by the main character from Space Cats from Space, these entries form a resource for feline companions to help them ease the transition from cat “owner” to their true role as caretaker and, possibly, human slave. Please enjoy!Continue reading “C is for Catnip – #AtoZChallenge”

If you are reading this, you may know quite a fair bit about your cats. Please enjoy this selection from A Brief History of Space Cats, and the Care and Feeding Thereof by Sarah Ever. Written by the main character from Space Cats from Space, these entries form a resource for feline companions to help them ease the transition from cat “owner” to their true role as caretaker and, possibly, human slave. Please enjoy!Continue reading “B is for Brothers – #AtoZChallenge”

It’s hard not to feel like I’m Queen of the Mountain of Words when I’ve been on a streak of 300-400 words per day and now for the second day in a row I kill that old number by a lot. I still know I can do more, do better, but this feels good right now.

Yesterday I wrote 1,628 fiction words, and 2,639 words total. Writing over 1,000 blog words is new, I believe. I can’t remember doing that before. And I didn’t count the A-Z words because those were previously written and counted in fiction words somewhere.

Ahh. It’s good! So I should point out that last week I decided not to use 002 as my A-Z fiction, and then on Saturday, I did just that. I actually have multiples of some letters, but I’m choosing the best one (or the one I like the most, or who knows how I’ll choose, but I’m only choosing one) to post each day. So when I finally get 001 published, and then when it comes time to publish 002, there will be quite a bit of content that’s new, I think. Maybe. Or at least a couple extra A’s.

OK, that’s it, except for these two extra notes below this paragraph. I hope everyone has a fantastic Monday!

*002 is the number of this story in my pursuit of Pulp Speed. It’s as good a code name as any and allows me to easily keep track of which story I was working on in my word count tracking spreadsheet.

**003 is the number of my April Camp NaNo project. I don’t usually do two fiction things at once. Ever. But now I am. So there are two to keep track of!

Yesterday was pretty amazing. It was incredibly productive, happy, and overall quite satisfying. We celebrated a thing and there were gifts that were enjoyed. We had dinner out with family (the company was the best part – the food left quite a bit to be desired), and cake! What day isn’t made a million times better with cake?

The youths and I went to see Power Rangers, too. It was fun, not horrible, kind of campy but not too bad, and I think we all enjoyed it. The popcorn was good, but AMC is a disappointment. The trend now is to have self-serve butter. That’s fine and dandy, but you can’t get the layers, and while I am eternally grateful to my dear friend who comes with me to theaters so I can layer my butter, it’s just not the same when you do it yourself. This is the move that theaters can make that will keep me from attending. Hmph.

But back to good stuff! Words! I wrote all the words, Roxanne (#butcheredQotD). Yesterday got 2,613 fiction words and 3,193 total. I didn’t count the A-Z post because most of those words were already written. Copy and paste doesn’t really count, and I didn’t want to go to the trouble of just calculating the “Before More…” words.

I want to say I knocked the words out of the park. And it feels that way. But I know I can do better! So I will keep working on my speed. So far it’s slow going today, but I still have time. I need to stop worrying so much and just write. I’m going to learn a lot simply by doing, and it won’t feel like work that way.

Okay, I’m off to word more words, and spell-grind more words, and clean at some point because UGH. The cats were fighting this morning and left fur EVERYWHERE, and the living room is driving me crazy, and I need to wash my hands and take medicine because headache.

If you are reading this, you may know quite a fair bit about your cats. Please enjoy this selection from A Brief History of Space Cats, and the Care and Feeding Thereof by Sarah Ever. Written by the main character from Space Cats from Space, these entries form a resource for feline companions to help them ease the transition from cat “owner” to their true role as caretaker and, possibly, human slave. Please enjoy!Continue reading “A is for Admiral Fluffybutt – #AtoZChallenge”

The joke is that there’s no joke here. 🙂 April fool’s is one of my least favorite holidays. I can’t take a joke, you see. I have found a couple YouTube video jokes that are fun, but they’re obvious so I can enjoy them. Maybe the day is getting better as I age. Huh.

I wrote 262 fiction words yesterday with 408 words total. I’m also posting from my phone again because Writing Chromebook only for writing, and the kids have hijacked my regular laptop. *insert affectionate, Motherly exasperation here*

Yesterday was one of those days that absolutely defined why I am working to make writing my full time gig. Essentially, I am ready to break into the super scary world of self-employment so I can choose how to deal with the buttheads of the world. I’m sure nobody else knows how that feels ever.

Yesterday I wrote 217 new words for A Brief History of Space Cats and the Care and Feeding Thereof in the morning and worked through a huge chunk of Space Cats from Space Earth in the evening. (I logged 375 total words for the day.)

I’m going to cut this entry (very, very) short. I hope everyone has a lovely day!

Today will have to be a phone post. It’s a crazy morning and I want to get this done but there is a ton of other unrelated things to accomplish. So in the interest of brevity!

I wrote 270 (662) fiction (total) words yesterday.

I also invested in a Chromebook only for writing. I won’t claim I need it to be a writer, but the reality is that there are lots of times I need to write and I convince myself that it’s too much trouble to get the kids off my laptop to do so. And the price was right.